Ansel Adams Quotes

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

Ansel Adams

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• Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Space
  • Violence
  • Architecture

• I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Hero

• The ADA is essential in helping me overcome the obstacles I face as a Wounded Warrior and empowers me to assist other veterans. It allows me to be physically active, have my pilot's license, and serve in Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Helping
  • Obstacles
  • Warrior

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Best
  • Year
  • Artists

• I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Military
  • Find
  • Falling

• There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • People
  • Country
  • Know

• Palestinian people are in love with life.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • People
  • Life
  • Are

• By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

  

  Kajol
  • Time
  • Change
  • Be Yourself

• I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Know

• The Middle East has the highest unemployment percentage of any region in the world we have the largest youth cohort of history coming into the market place that frustration does translate into the political sphere when people are hungry and without jobs.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • People
  • World
  • History

• I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Important
  • Failure
  • New

• Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • World
  • Music
  • Emotion

• I like to play board games a lot with my girl, things like that. We attempt to cook. And even if it goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it's the time you spend doing it that's important.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Time
  • Important
  • Girl

• I knew I could never be an actor as a man. It just doesn't work, you know? And so when I was doing drag, I realized I could do that kind of stuff, and then when I was transitioning, I kind of gave up on the whole thing because I didn't think that this time would ever come, you know?

  

  Candis Cayne
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• She came awake, stomach rumbling, and opened her eyes to see a plate being held right under her nose. When she reached for it, Shane snatched it back. "Nuh-uh. Mine." "Share!" she demanded. "Man, you are one grabby girlfriend." She grinned. It always made her feel so fiercly warm inside to hear him say that- the girlfriend part, not the grabby part. "If you love me, you'll give me a taco." "Seriously? That's all you got? What about you'll do sexy, illegal things to me for a taco?" "Not for a taco," she said. "I'm not cheap." "They're brisket tacos." "Now you're talking.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Sexy

• You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. " Good question. Morbid, isn't it?" "What?" "Dreaming about dead peolpe. Creepy. You ever see a therapist about that?" "I'm not -" Even in dreams, I couldn't win an argument. Even when he was dead.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Good
  • Why
  • Dream

• The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • People
  • Up
  • Rocky

• We are working on the basis it is a kidnapping.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Kidnapping

• There's nothing less than that. I don't care about just going to the playoffs; I've been to the playoffs before.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Care
  • Playoffs

• Why did you come here? To find you.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Why
  • Find
  • Come

• Business leaders, labor unions, governors, mayors, congressmen and presidents have all complained about a lack of funding for years, but aside from a one-time cash infusion from the stimulus program, nothing much has changed. There is still no consensus on how to solve the problem or where to get the massive amounts of money needed to fix it, just another example of political paralysis in Washington.

  

  Steve Kroft
  • Problem
  • Solve
  • Funding

• I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whatever. I incite people to make their self-portraits. I see myself as their walking photo booth.

  

  William Klein
  • People
  • Cutting
  • Photography

• A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Negative
  • Photograph
  • Exists